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Chibok kidnapping

Ladi, Glory and Mary, three of the escaped Chibok girls, stroll through the gardens of the American University of Nigeria, in Yola, Nigeria. They've received scholarships to go to school at AUN.

Some of the Chibok girls are getting an education and a new future

March 24, 2017Education

Boko Haram means “western education is forbidden.” But some of the Chibok girls who managed to escape the extremist group are getting that forbidden education.

Women react during a protest demanding that Nigerian security forces search harder for 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.

Nigerian girls who escaped from Boko Haram describe their ordeal

October 27, 2014Conflict

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